I.to press into or upon, to stick, stamp, or dig into, to impress, imprint (class.).
I. Lit.: “si in ejusmodi cera centum sigilla hoc anulo impressero,” Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86: “locus ubi vestigium impresserit,” id. Caecin. 27, 76; id. Phil. 13, 15, 30: “sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,” id. Div. 1, 13, 23: “ne imprimatur jacentibus molibus solum,” Col. 3, 13, 1: imprimitque genae genam, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 686 (Trag. v. 436): “os cucurbitulae corpori,” Cels. 2, 11: “signa tabellis,” Hor. S. 2, 6, 38: “impressit dente labris notam,” id. C. 1, 13, 12; cf.: “dentes alicui,” Luc. 9, 806: “muris aratrum,” Hor. C. 1, 16, 20: “stigmata captivorum frontibus,” Petr. 105: “(Dido) os impressa toro,” Verg. A. 4, 659: “impressa orbita,” Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2: “sulcus altius impressus,” id. Div. 2, 23, 50: “monimenta impressa saxis,” Tac. A. 11, 14: “puteum,” i. e. to sink, dig, Pall. 1, 34: “nudo ecce jugulum, convertite huc manus, imprimite mucrones,” Petr. 80: “dentem,” Tib. 1, 6, 14; cf.: “morsum,” i. e. to bite, Col. 6, 17, 33; Plin. 8, 25, 37, § 89: “vulnus,” i. e. to make, Col. 7, 11, 2: “basia,” Mart. 10, 42, 5: “staminaque impresso fatalia pollice nentes,” pressed upon, Ov. M. 8, 453; cf.: “impressoque genu nitens,” Verg. A. 12, 303: “humidaque impressa siccabat lumina lana,” Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 17: “exempta scutula cortici, imprimitur ex alia cortex par,” Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 118. —
B. Transf.: aliquid (aliqua re), to press in, give an impression to a thing, to engrave, stamp, mark: an imprimi quasi ceram animum putamus? Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61: “hoc munus habebis, Cratera impressum signis,” Verg. A. 5, 536; cf.: “impressas auro quas gesserat olim Exuvias,” i. e. embroidered, Luc. 9, 176: “non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa?” Pers. 1, 37: “transtra per et remos impressaque terga virorum,” pressed down, bended, Stat. Th. 5, 403.—
II. Trop., to impress, engrave, stamp, mark: “quod in omnium animis eorum notionem impressisset ipsa natura,” Cic. N. D. 1, 16, 43; cf.: “visa in animis,” id. Ac. 2, 18, 58: “quaeque in animis imprimuntur incohatae intellegentiae, similiter in omnibus imprimuntur,” id. Leg. 1, 10, 30; id. Fat. 19, 43: “verum illud quidem impressum in animo atque mente,” id. Ac. 2, 11, 34: “nisi omnes ii motus in ipso oratore impressi esse atque inusti videbuntur,” id. de Or. 2, 45, 189: “quo e genere nobis notitiae rerum imprimuntur,” id. Ac. 2, 7, 21: “in quibus (curriculis) Platonis primum sunt impressa vestigia,” id. Or. 3, 12; cf.: “(memoria) constat ex notis litterarum, et ex eo, in quo imprimuntur illae notae,” id. Part. Or. 7, 26: “menti impressa,” id. ib. 2, 11, 34: “quaedam vestigia animo,” Quint. 11, 2, 4: “memoria publica recensionis tabulis publicis impressa,” Cic. Mil. 27, 73: “impressa animo rudi memoria,” Quint. 1, 1, 36: “quorum lectione duplex imprimeretur rei publicae dedecus,” Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16: “cum fortitudinis, tum vero humanitatis ... impressa vestigia,” id. Balb. 5, 13.—
B. Transf. (acc. to I. B.), to stamp, mark: “horum flagitiorum iste vestigiis omnia municipia, praefecturas ... impressit,” Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 58; id. Fam. 5, 20, 5.—Hence, impressē , adv., strongly, forcibly, impressively (postclass.).
1. Lit.: “dehinc rursus defricandus tenacius quidem, sed non impressius,” Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 7, 87. —
2. Trop.: “alte et impresse recogitare,” Tert. Exhort. Cast. 3: “ut impressius dixerim,” id. Car. Christ. 12.
